BRADFORD MILLS SHUT DOWN
WOOLCOMBING TRADE DISPUTE. By Telegraph-Press Association-OopyriEUt (Eec. Juno 18, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 17. Fifty large woolcombing firms at Bradford havo shut down. Gangs of strikers visited several works where the employees had not struck, and some disturbances ensued. The employers are determined to frco themselves from the trade agreement which has hitherto tied their hands in dealing with night workers. Three firms have granted the strikers' demands.
A London message of May 29 stated tliat the Bradford woolcombers were demanding a general advance of 5 per cent, in wages, with a minimum wage of 255. a week for night workers. The employers stated in reply, that three advances had been given in four years, and their paiience was exhausted. The trade disturbances, they declared, were duo to the persistent, and often frivolous, applications of the operatives, and they were determined to take drastic measures to oppose further demands.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1157, 19 June 1911, Page 5
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